1978, patinated bronze, edition number 5/6, with signature and date to base.

11 x 8 3/4 x 5 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Graduating from Edinburgh University in 1976 with a Master of Philosophy, David also had concurrently taken a special course in sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art. Inspired, David moved to Florence where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arte and the Scuola Libera del Nudo. Returning to London, he had a period of collaboration with London’s leading contemporary dance company, Ballet Rambert. Cregeen’s first major solo exhibition, based on his time with Ballet Rambert, was at The Mannanan Festival of The Arts in 1981, followed by Edinburgh International Festival. In 1982, Cregeen won the Grolla d’Oro in Treviso, Venice, for a sculpture inspired by the Chosen Maiden’s last solo in Ballet Rambert’s revival of the Stravinski Ballet ‘The Rite of Spring’.

During this time he spent much time in New York through a relationship the late Dr. Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), inviting him to undertake the project Faces in History: a series of 20 portrait heads of leading personalities of our time. Some of those Cregeen has sculpted from life for this project have been Queen Elizabeth II as Head of The Commonwealth; President Nelson Mandela; Pope John Paul II; Mother Theresa, President Gorbachev, British Prime Minister Lady Thatcher, Professor Stephen Hawking, Sir John Gielgud, and leading Turkish businessman and philanthropist Sakip Sabanci. His first solo exhibition in the US was at the Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington DC, which featured the portrait head of Dr. Sackler now at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC (NPG.96.31). In 1986, he took part in the Greater London Council sponsored exhibition Humanism in Contemporary British Sculpture.

Since 1990 while working internationally he has spent much time based at his studio in Southern Turkey.

His work is found in many public and private collections including: The Royal Collection, London; The National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC; The Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York; The British Commonwealth, Secretariat, London; Middle Temple, London; International Student House, London, The Sakip Sabanci Museum Istanbul; Haci Omer Sabanci Holdings, Istanbul; among many others.

Good estate condition.